Manuel Puig Quotes

Author Image

Manuel Puig

Profession : Author

Birth : December 28, 1932

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

Manuel Puig

I only understand realism.

Manuel Puig

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

Manuel Puig

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

Manuel Puig

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

Manuel Puig

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

Manuel Puig

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

Manuel Puig

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

Manuel Puig

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

Manuel Puig

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

Manuel Puig

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

Manuel Puig

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

Manuel Puig

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

Manuel Puig

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

Manuel Puig

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

Manuel Puig

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

Manuel Puig

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

Manuel Puig

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

Manuel Puig

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

Manuel Puig

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

Manuel Puig